Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-02
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A NEW PARL0R GAME.
WHOEVER FIRST COMES ALONG WITH
1T WILL GET RICH.

ANY Trivial Little Thing Easily Becomes
a Craze-Fun With Bean Bags-Para-
pbernalia of the Game-Drawing a
Pig.
9The man who will invent new parlor
game that will catch the fancy Of society
| needn't trouble himself about the little cares
of this life" said a society man. "An the
circles high and low are thirsUing for some
thing new, and whoever gets in with it first
is sure to make fortune. Now, to show you
how easily trivial little thing becomes a
craze, have only to call your attention to
the bean bag game. 1t isn't the old bean bag
that YOU toss from one row or line of persons
to another, but a game that requires little
skill in throwing. That's the secret Of the
whole thing-the throwing. You want a
number of bean bags of different sizes, piece
of painted canvas, with hole in it, and ap-
pliances to stretch the canvas between the
folding doors dividing two parlors, and when
you've got them you've got the new craze
complete. I've seen twenty married men
and women throwing bags at the hole in the
canvas for two hours, and they seemed to
enjoy it so much that they were reluctant to
stop and go home. If you hear a business
man complain Of a sore shoulder you can
truthfully suspect him of bean throwing.
There is a sort of excitement about the game
that makes it popular, but it wont run very
long. Men like it because they want to
demonstrate to their wives that they can
throw straighter than women; also because
it makes them think of the days when shin
ing silk hat was mark for SNOWFALL or
brick.
TEN SIZES OF BEAN BAGS.
"Of course there are prizes for the best
throwers as there are for the best players of
progressive euchre, and once the things gets
in motion everybody does his best to get the
best prize. There are ten sizes of bags, and
they count from 10 to 100, the latter of course
being the largest bag. A thrower begins
with the ten, and if he succeeds in putting it
through the hole in the canvas he tries to
send the twenty bag after it, and continues
to throw until he scores a miss, when he has
to give way to the next person on the list.
The paraphernalia Of the game, as you can
see, is simple, yet it can be made to cost a
good deal of money if any anybody has a no
ton for costly things. am credibly informed
that the genius who invented it has already
made S20,000 from the manufacture and sale
of bags and canvas, and that his profits are
0lCfeiSlIS every udy
@There is another form of amusement that
is coming into favor very rapidly, though it
isn't nearly as popular as the bean bag. 1t is
the drawing of objects on paper and states
blindfolded. was at party the other night
when contest of this kind was gotten up by
some of the ladies, and it proved a source of
genuine fun.
"Now,' began one of the ladies who pro-
posed the game, Il will blndfold Mr.. M
and let him try to draw pig Mr.. M
was accordingly blindfolded, pencil was
put in his hand, and he began to trace the
outlines of porker on a piece of drawing
paper 1t was funny, l tell you, to watch
that pig as he developed it. When he got
through and removed the handkerchief from
hjs eyes to catch glimpse at his work he just
said, Rats, that amt pig. l can do better
than that
"He was right. 1t wasn't a pig, and it
would have taken greater genius than any
that saw it to have likened it to any object to
be found above ground. There were two or
three stock yards men in the party, men who
buy and sell hogs every day, and not one of
them came nearer a pig than pig itself
could if it had pencil. All this may look
trivial to persons who don't get a great deal
of parlor entertainment, but l assure you it
was good fun for everybody there. Itdoesn't
take much to amuse people who are at all
inclined to be domestic in their tastes, and the
simpler the game the more popular it will
become. That's why progressive euchre has
stood so long Chicago Herald.